Kol Mevaser, Mevaser Ve’Omer

(ISRAEL, LAND OF).

J. Sommer

Fürth

(1864)

Hebrew and German

A prospectus offering scholarships to Jewish students from Eretz Israel. Dismayed by the penury of their brethren in Eretz Israel, the Jewish community of Bamberg formed a committee to provide support for young Jews to come to Germany in order to learn a profession or trade. The plan was that these individuals would subsequently return to their homeland enabled to earn a livelihood and thus become independent of the welfare-rolls. The prospectus stresses that the program has no intention of undermining a traditional Orthodoox life-style that centers around the study of Torah. Signatories: Sal. Dessauer, M.L. Eger, Jac. Goldmann, Marx Gütterman, H. Klein, B. Lämlein, M. Ullmann, Sam. Wassermann, Dr. J. Kobak, Distrikts-Rabbiner. See JE, Vol. II, p. 483. A highly forward-thinking program of economic advancement and social engineering - not just within the Jewish community, but from the perspective of European society as a whole.